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Second Bury Conservative candidate dropped by party over ‘anti-Semitic’ tweet

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A second Bury Conservative election candidate has been ditched by the party after an ‘anti-Semitic’ social media post emerged.

Shaf Mahmood, who was selected by the Tories as one of their three candidates for the Redvales ward has had his endorsement from the party revoked today, the district association revealed.

Just yesterday, another Bury Conservative candidate, Sham Raja, who last week was confirmed as a Tory candidate in the Sedgley ward on May 5, was dropped by the party after a post on his account dating back to 2014 emerged which compared Israeli footballers to ‘assassins’.

It is understood that Mr Mahmood published a tweet in 2017 saying ‘Jews r at it again’, which referred to a news item about an Israeli national.

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